Make New York Post a Preferred Source A rocket carrying 40 satellites into orbit for tech giant Amazon failed nearly 10 minutes after launch due to an “anomaly,” officials said.
The United Launch Alliance’s rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at around 12:45 p.m. on Sunday afternoon but thinks quickly went south due to an unspecified issue, the launch service provider said in an X post.
The vessel, christened Vulcan Leo 1, was to be the first in a series of takeoffs with the Seattle-based tech giant, which ULA said would place broadband satellites in orbit to provide internet access in service dead-zones on Earth.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket launches Amazon Leo satellites from Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on Sunday November 15, 2026. Joe Marino/UPI/Shutterstock ULA did not provide any specifics on what caused the rocket to fail, but said they plan to investigate and “return to flight as quickly as possible.”
“Every flight generates data, and every flight teaches us something,” the aerospace company said in a statement. “Since the anomaly just occurred, we don’t have any specific data yet to understand what occurred today.”
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